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Date: Sun 12-Jan-1989 23:36:32 From: Unknown Subject: Reading Shakespeare Is there a way to just "open a book and start reading it" using the Digital Librarian? There is an "open" button on the Digital Librarian screen, but whenever I try it I get an "Open What?" response. James Conley Indiana University Computer Science jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu >From: jgreely@brachiosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
Date: Sun 13-Jan-1989 01:28:20 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Reading Shakespeare In article <16434@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley) writes: > Is there a way to just "open a book and start reading it" using the >Digital Librarian? There is an "open" button on the Digital Librarian screen, >but whenever I try it I get an "Open What?" response. Yup, that's a problem with the interface. Until you've made a search, the Librarian has no concept of a "current directory" to open from. Better yet, if you switch databases (for lack of a NeXT-ier word), the current directory is not updated until you've searched in it. The current directory comes from the highlighted selection. So, for example, if you want the text of "Merchant of Venice", click on Shakespeare, search for "Merchant", select the first match from the correct play, and click Open. You'll get a Browser that is set to the directory containing that play (filenames are <act>.<scene>). Selecting a file will call up Edit on it, *not* put it into the Librarian. You can now read the play, by calling up Edit on each of the files in turn. Clumsy, yeah, but they never said it was *finished*. -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely) "I was trying to modify the Sony Walkman into something *useful* -- throw the heterodyne into the fourth dimension -- when I lost concentration and a whole bunch of green icing fell to the ground." >From: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley)
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